Signs and Notices
- Honeywell Computers: West London
- STRICTLY NO ADMITTANCE
mind the step!
- A Northern Sign
- MANCHESTER HEALTH & FITNESS CLUB
Take lift to Second Floor
- An Oxford Sign
- VARSITY SCHOOL OF ENGLISH - press bell on left; when buzzer sounds, push
hard on door and enter; take first left and second right, go to far end of
corridor and ascend spiral staircase: our welcome desk is situated diagonally
opposite the second-floor landing. PLEASE ASK FOR DETAILS of our six-week
intensive tuition course, "ESSENTIAL ENGLISH FOR COMPLETE BEGINNERS".
- A Legal Sign
- NO ENTRY for those bearing burdens
[Entry to London Law Courts]
- A Tribute Notice
- Owing to misfortunes in childhood, he was almost entirely self-educated.
[statue of F Henry Royce, in Sinfin]
- An Ecclesiastical Notice
- The Brothers of the Misericord harbour every kind of disease and have
no respect for religion.
[source: Guardian Weekly]
- A French Traffic Notice
- To the right, "Toutes Directions".
To the left, "Autres Directions".
[source: Guardian Weekly]
- An Inconvenient Notice
- In the toilets of an office block in Harare: "This urinal is out of
order, please use the floor below".
[source: Guardian Weekly]
- A Memorial Inscription
- NOW AT REST
from his wife and family.
- And another - as seen in an undertaker's window display
- In loving memory of ROSE
who budded, bloomed, then faded away.
- Can't resist also adding my suggested advertising strap for the local undertaker...
- Always at your Disposal.
- An Examination Notice
- Negligently presented or slovenly work will be penalized.
[Northern Universities Joint Matriculation Board]
- A Hospital Sign
- BEWARE OF FALLING LIMBS
[notice displayed in wooded grounds, warning of potential danger following severe winter storms]
- A moving exhortation
- Your journey is what you make it.
[slogan on Essex County Council Bus and Train Maps]
- A telematic announcement
- ** In the near future, this system will no longer display departure information. This is due to a system upgrade. **
[dot matrix scrolling display at Essex bus stops]
- A Welsh Notice
- No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site
only.
Nid wyf yn y swyddfa ar hyn o bryd. Anfonwch unrhyw waith i’w gyfieithu.
(The Welsh text translates into English as follows: "I
am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.")